NVK of Coinkite rejoins me to talk about attitudes on Bitcoin development and consensus changes. We discuss how “ossification” is commonly thrown around as a term, but maybe there is a better term. “Extreme conservatism”? We talk:

• What is ossification? 
• What about bug fixes? 
• What changes would NVK be interested in? 
• How many people will use Bitcoin? 
• What the market is focused on
• It’s not your chain

Links:

• X: @nvk
• Bitcoinsecurity.guide
• coinkite.com
• Unleashed.chat 

Timestamps:

(00:00) – Intro 

(00:52) – Ossification and gardening 

(06:06) – Where are the ossifiers? 

(09:03) – Fixing bugs on the Bitcoin protocol 

(17:13) – Assessing BIPs & change proposals

(23:53) – NVK on Bitcoin as SOV and/or MOE

(31:47) – Sponsors

(34:58) – “USD is the best shitcoin”

(37:32) – The fate of other blockchains

(45:41) – Putting Bitcoin on a pedestal?

(49:32) – Gresham’s Law in context of Bitcoin

(51:34) – Future path for Bitcoin

(57:27) – Outro

Sponsors:

• Swan.com (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
• Mempool.space

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